D. N. A. A.
Your correspondent recently picked up a new book which will be of interest to the readers of this column. It is Navy at Dartmouth by Ray Nash (Dartmouth College Publications, $2.50) and is composed of fifteen pages of pictures depicting the Navy life at Dartmouth together with nearly one hundred pages of text. The fine craftsmanship for which Mr. Nash is noted is apparent in both the design of the book as a whole and the well-written text. Of particular enjoyment to me was the part of the appendix containing the memory-provoking regulations of the V-12 Unit complete with the complicated demerit system.
The applications continue to pour in for the DNAA so we still have some news to offer. Bill Duffy wrote some time ago while on the LSM 157 somewhere in the Far East. According to his predictions, he should be discharged by now. The good word has it that Art Nichols made "jg" shortly before he started terminal leave last June. When last heard from Art was finishing college at Boston U. this summer. R. E. Welt is again a happy civilian and should be showing up here on Campus again soon. Paul Faubert, after a varied tour of duty on a transport, a cruiser and with Despac, is now another civilian. Paul last wrote us from his home in Haverhill. We'd like to know what his plans are for the future. Al Trowsdale is now disbursing officer at the Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern, Calif. We could not find that place on the map but he tells us that it is on the edge of the Mojave desert so it doesn't sound like the best of duty. Al sends his regards to all of his exclassmates of Tuck.
Don Johnson, after receiving his commission in the Supply Corps and released to inactive duty, is now an accountant for a New York City C.P.A. firm. He spends most of the time on the road and writes that he likes the job. Ens. Tony Serafino recently sent a chatty letter from Tokyo. It seems that Tony went out there to find the USS Columbus but it was back in the States so he is a member of the staff on the USS Piedmont. Mac Arthur's little helper, as Tony calls himself, has the imposing title of Assistant Supply Officer Naval Forces Afloat Japanese Empire but he adds that things are so slow that it takes more effort to pronounce the title than to execute the duties attached thereto. Serafino has met both TomMcCollow, supply officer of the USS Platte (A 024) and Bill Enright while in those waters. Ens. Tate Baker is in the supply office of the Naval Air Station, Alameda, Calif. That needs some explanation as the nearest Tate ever got to supply training was an occasional evening stroll down Tuck Mall. Sheldon Silliman sends us quite a bit of news concerning the Dartmouth men now at Tufts. J. D. Vogwill, BobMcNabb and Paul Lawrence were there as NROTC Midshipmen in the spring term and will probably return in the fall. Art Dickson was there making a name for himself on the track team. Bill (Rocky) Stone is at Tufts majoring in Physics. Silliman has joined the ranks of the married but he neglected to tell us who the other half was. Ens. E. W. (Bill)Marshall was last heard from as gunnery officer on the USS Fall River. No report from him since June so he may have shifted since then. Bill Butler has added an extra half stripe to his sleeve and is waiting for his USN paper to go through.
Homer F. Caswell has charge of the Fire Prevention Bureau in the Fire Department of Santa Monica, Calif.
Garditier L. Northup sends us some news from Rhode Island. He is back in Providence as an underwriter for the Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. of America. Prior to that Northup served on the "Mighty Mo" from her commissioning until she returned to New York on Navy Day. Quite often he sees LeonPlymptcm who is President of the New England Helicopter Service. Lee married a girl he met while stationed in Miami and is the proud papa of a baby girl. Bob Mateer is also living and working in Providence. Ray Whitehead is a mighty sophomore at R.P.I. where he is studying aeronautical engineering. Ray says that Rensselaer is more of a brain factory than a college but since Dartmouth doesn't have what he wants it's the best he can do. Ens. Mike Schetky is aboard the XJSSArnold J. Isbell (DDB69), wherever that may be, and he's still wishing that he were back on the Green. Ens. Ed Nutter has command of the LCI (L) 1067 somewhere in the Pacific.
Some of the former V-12ers who were back in town for visits this past summer include: Emit Bernier, who will be enrolled here in the fall; Fred Pfau, up from Boston for a weekend before entering B. U.'s Graduate School of Education; Ed Carney, who will go back to B. U. for his second year of medical studies; Walt Carver, recently discharged and enrolled in the B. U. Medical School and Adrian Magrath, sporting that thin gold stripe acquired here at the commissioning exercises on June 30. Oh yes, Comdr. Bullis, minus the gold braid and sporting a long limousine, made a brief return engagement on the Plains of Hanover.
News is just about as scarce from the Marines this issue as it was last. Your regular correspondent Art Wilson has finally been located in New York City leading a high lifewe suspect that he is running a male escort bureau. We couldn't even pin him down for this issue and he was last seen flying toward Chicago. Gordy Tully dropped us a short note on the back of his application to DNAA. After the grind of P. 1., the Sea School and in the Marine Detachment on the USS Hancock (CVI 9), Tully is getting his education the smooth way at Rollins College in Florida. According to Gordy, Reedy Talton was married to Grace Barr at Orlando, Florida, while on terminal leave. He also adds that Hank Swan was running a boys camp this summer in upper New York and is planning to return to Rollins this fall. Pat McGlaughlin, who just finished his schooling here this summer, has had the first addition to his family. It was a boy born July 19 and is named Dennis Patrick. Sounds like it might be an Irish name. If you have been following the sporting news you must have noticed how the 1943 Dartmouth football team is scattered throughout most of the East. By the football team, we mean, of course, men of the first Marine Corps contingent. Mangene is back at Boston College, Don Kasparzak has returned to Columbia, Wizbyki is back at Holy Cross, and Andrejco is back at Fordham, just to mention a few. However, such ex-Marines as Rusch, Albrecht, Fran O'Brien, Russell, Bennett, Biggie and Bartnick are working under Tuss here so the Marine Corps should be well represented on our 1946 team.
That just about cleans up our supply of news accumulated during the membership drive, so keep the mail coming in. We want to have something to. put in this column during the next year. Drop us a short line and let us know what you are doing or where you are going to school. If you want to contact some of the old gang we will publish your address but let the gang know what YOTJ are doing. Our address is still 208 Parkhurst, Hanover.
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